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Polymorphisms of GSTP1 is associated with differences of chemotherapy response and toxicity in breast cancer Bailin ZHANG†, Tong SUN1,†, Baoning ZHANG, Shan ZHENG2, Ning LU2, Binghe XU3, Xiang WANG, Guoji CHEN, Dianke YU1, and Dongxin LIN11,* Center of Breast Diseases and Department of Abdominal Surgery, 1Department of Etiology and Carcinogenesis, 2Department of Pathology and 3Department of Medical Oncology, Cancer Institute and Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100021, China * To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +86 1087788491; Fax: +86 1067722460; Email: [email protected] † These authors contributed equally to this work. 1 Abstract Background Although chemotherapy is one of the most important treatments of breast cancer, it is limited by significant inter-individuval variations in response and toxicity. The metabolism of epirubicin (EPI) and cyclophosphamide (CTX) is mainly mediated by cytochrome P450s (CYPs) and glutathione S-transferases (GSTs). It has been well-known that the activities of these enzymes are polymorphic in population due to their genetic polymorphisms. Methods We examined the effects of genetic polymorphisms in CYP3A, GSTP1 and MDR1 genes on treatment response and side-effects of breast cancer patients receiving EPI/CTX chemotherapy. One hundred and twenty patients with stage II or III invasive breast cancer were recruited and treated with three to four cycles of EPI 80 mg/m2 and CTX 600 mg/m2 every two weeks. The AJCC TNM staging system (sixth edition) was used to evaluate the pathological response of primary tumor and axillary lymph nodes. The genotypes of gene polymorphisms were determined by using PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism methods. Results Patients carrying GSTP1 105Ile/Val or 105Ile/Ile genotype are more likely to have well response (OR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.16−0.96; P = 0.024) and light toxicity (OR, 0.35; 95% CI, 0.13−0.78; P = 0.006) than those carrying 105Val/Val genotypes. The response to the treatment was not correlated with ER, PR and Her2/neu status of tumors. No correlation was found between toxicity effect and patient’s age, tumor staging, menopause status, and dose intensity of the drugs. Conclusion These results suggested that GSTP1 polymorphism was associatiated with the chemotherapy response or adverse effects of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide regimens. Key words: Glutathione S-Transferase pi; polymorphisms; Drug Therapy;; Breast Neoplasms; 2 Introduction Breast cancer is the most frequent cancer of women with an estimation of 1.15 million new cases globally in 2002[1] and 26% (about 0.19 million) of all new cancer cases among women in the United States in 2009[2]. Although the prognosis of breast cancer is good as the advance of systematic therapy[3, 4], significant heterogeneity in the response and toxicity of chemotherapeutic agents is also observed[5]. Resistance to chemotherapy and toxicity of specific agents are largely determined by multifaceted enzymatic systems that are cytotoxic targets or members of the metabolic pathway of the administered drug. In spite of many clinical characters (e.g., age, organ function, tumour biology, concurrent medications), genetic differences in drug transport, metabolism and drug targets also contribute to the difference of treatment outcomes[6]. Most patients with breast cancer were treated with chemotherapy especially those with locally advanced disease. Anthracycline and cyclophosphamide (CTX) based chemotherapy regimen is commonly used as recommended by NCCN clinical practice guidelines of breast cancer. The toxicity profile of this regimen is characterized by myelosuppression, cardiotoxicity and urotoxicity. Epirubicin can produce a cytotoxic effect through intercalation with DNA, eventually inducing DNA cleavage by topoisomerase II. Doxorubicin is a substrate of P-glycoprotein, encoded by the multidrug resistance (MDR-1) gene. Activation of CTX to 4-hydroxy-cyclophosphamide (4-OH-CPA) is catalyzed mainly by the hepatic cytochrome P450 (CYP) isozymes. 4-OH-CPA interconverts rapidly with its tautomer, aldophosphamide and it is likely that both of these metabolites passively diffuse out of hepatic cells, circulate, and then passively enter other cells[7]. Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs), a superfamily of dimeric phase II metabolic enzymes, play an important role in the cellular defense system. GST enzymes catalyze the conjugation of toxic and carcinogenic electrophilic molecules with glutathione and thereby protect cellular macromolecules from damage. The subclass GSTP1 is widely expressed in normal human epithelial tissues. The genetic changes of GSTP1 may alter the function of the enzyme. Deleted or mutated GSTP1 may be associated with less detoxification of CTX, resulting in more available drug compared to the wild-type enzyme. Cytochromes in the P4503A family are estimated to participate in the metabolism of 40 to 60% of all clinically administered drugs. Neoadjuvant (preoperative) chemotherapy provides an opportunity to directly assess tumor response and 3 toxicity to therapy without interference of other treatments. On the basis of these preclinical and clinical data, we hypothesized that genetic variants in the major drug-metabolizing enzyme involved in EPI and CTX predict interindividual variability treatment response. To test this hypothesis, we examined the association between therapy response, toxicity and the genetic polymorphisms in CYP3A, GSTP1 and MDR1 from 120 patients received neoadjuvant chemotherapy of EPI and CTX regimen. We found that GSTP1 polymorphism was associatiated with chemotherapy response or adverse effects of epirubicin and cyclophosphamide regimens. 4 METHODS Patients and treatment regimen From June 2005 to March 2007, one hundred and twenty patients with stage II or III invasive breast cancer were recruited and treated with three to four cycles of EPI 80 mg/m2 and CTX 600 mg/m2 every two weeks. Core needle biopsy of primary breast tumor was performed and anticoagulated peripheral blood was obtained from each patient before the starting of treatment. The patients were aged from 29 to 70 years and had normal haematopoietic, cardiac, pulmonary, renal and hepatic functions. All patients signed an informed consent prior to entering the study. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Cancer Hospital and Institute. Response assessment and toxicity evaluate criteria Clinical response of tumor was evaluated according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECST)[8]. The complete response was defined as disappearance of tumor for at least four weeks; partial response—at least a 30% decrease of the longest diameter of tumor for more than 4 weeks; progressive disease—at least a 20% increase of the longest diameter of tumor; stable disease—neither sufficient shrinkage to qualify for partial response nor sufficient increase to qualify for progressive disease. The sixth edition of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) tumor– node– metastasis (TNM) staging system[9] was used to evaluate both clinical stage before chemotherapy and pathological response of primary tumor and axillary lymph nodes after the treatment ( Table 1 ). Patients with stage 0 to II and stage III were defined as well and poor responses respectively. Chemotherapy related toxic reaction was evaluated according to the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE v3.0)[10]. Patients with grade I, II and Grade III, IV were defined as general and severe toxicity respectively. Genotyping Genomic DNA was extracted from blood samples of all patients. All assays were performed using a polymerase chain reaction based restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR–RFLP) technique twice. Such genomic DNAs (50 ng each) were amplified by PCR, and each PCR 5 product was digested with the appropriate enzyme (Table 2) according to the manufacturer’s protocol. After restriction enzyme analysis PCR fragments were visualized in a 2–3% agarose gel. The assays for six polymorphisms in CYP3As, GSTP1 and MDR1 genes were described in Table 2. Statistical analysis Pearson’s chi-square test was used to examine the differences in tumor response or chemotherapy toxicity among different genotypes of the genetic polymorphisms, and the associations were estimated using odds ratios (ORs) and their 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Differences in age distribution, tumor stage, menopausal statues and axillary nodes metastasity among patients with different toxicity after chemotherapy were also analyzed with Pearson’s chi-square test. The t-test was used to evaluate difference of average dose intensity of CTX and EPI between patients with different response and toxicity. The P value <0.05 was used as the criterion of statistical significance. All statistical tests were two-sided and performed with computer programs from Statistical Analysis System (SAS Institute, Cary, NC, USA). 6 RESULTS A total of 120 patients with a median age of 49 years (range: 29 – 70 years) were evaluated in this study. The clinicopathological features of patients are summarized in Table 3 and 4. All patients were ethnic Han women. The clinical response rate of this group was 75.8%, with seven patients (5.8%) of complete response and eighty-four patients (70.0%) of partial response. Twenty-nine (24.2%) patients had stable disease. No patient had disease progression during treatment. In this group, 70 patients (58.3%) had well response and 50 patients (41.7%) received poor response. The pathological complete response (stage 0) rate was 5.8%. All patients received the same regimen during chemotherapy. Estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor status and expression of the HER2 protein were measured by immunohistochemical analysis. Only complete membrane staining of invasive tumor cells was considered in the results. As the result of HER2 was not confirmed with fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis, only tumor cells scored three plus on the immunohistochemical analysis were considered to be positive for overexpression of the HER2 protein. There was no statistical significance of age, clinical tumor down-staging, menopausal status and average dose intensity of CTX and EPI between patients with severe (Grade III or IV) and average (Grade I or II) toxicity or different response. The modified radical operation was performed 111 patients (92.5%). The other 9 patients (7.5%) received breast conserving treatment. Two patients failed to be genotyped in more than one polymorphic site because of PCR amplification problems with their DNA samples. Records of toxicity were not available in five patients treated in outpatient department. Patients carrying GSTP1 105Ile/Val or 105Ile/Ile genotype are more likely to have well response (OR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.16−0.96; P = 0.024) and light toxicity (OR, 0.35; 95% CI, 0.13−0.78; P = 0.006) than those carrying 105Val/Val genotypes. In patients with poor response and well response, 38 (76.0%) and 38 (55.9%) carried GSTP1 genotype respectively. In patients with well response, 29 (42.6%) were (1.5%) was 105Ilel/Ile carriers. The 105Ile/ Val and 105Ile/Ile 105Ile/Val 105Val/Val carrier and 1 genotype carriers in poor response group were 10 (20.0%) and 2 (4.0%) respectively (Table 5). The 105Val/Val carrier numbers in severe and common toxicity groups were 41 (77.4%) and 32 (52.5%) respectively. 12 cases 7 (22.6%) with 105Ile/Val genotype suffered from the serve toxicity and no one in this group carried the 105 Ile/Ile genotype. Among patients with average toxicity, 26 (42.6%) and 3 subjects (4.9%) carried 105 Ile/Val and 105 Ile/Ile genotype respectively. No significant difference was found among other polymorphic sites. 8 DISCUSSION Although chemotherapy improves disease-free and overall survival from breast cancer patients[11], there are also great challenges that to identify patients who do benefit from chemotherapy and reduce the use of chemotherapy in those who do not derive benefit. In locally advanced breast cancer, the use of preoperative systemic chemotherapy has been shown to induce tumor response and facilitate local control through subsequent surgery and radiation therapy. Preopearative chemotherapy is established as the standard of care for patients with locally advanced breast cancer[12, 13]. Breast cancer comprises a spectrum of related but different cancer subtypes, which have different causal genetic changes, may follow different clinical courses, and require different treatments tailored to the phenotype[14, 15]. We initially hypothesized that functional polymorphisms in CYP3As, GSTP1 and MDR1 gene would lead to distinct phenotypes of drug metabolism that would predict outcome to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. We need to find out some other predictive factors to help the decision of individual treatment. In this study, we found that genetic variability in GSTP1 was significantly associated with treatment response and chemotherapy toxicity to CTX and EPI regimen. Patients with GSTP1 105Val/Val genotype were more likely to have poor response and severe toxicity. The contribution of genotypes on outcome was of statistical significance. These findings suggest that genetic variation in drug metabolism may play an important role in chemotherapy efficacy in breast cancer. As the mechanism of EPI metabolism is rarely reported, CTX metabolism always serves as a paradigm for the role of drug-metabolizing enzymes to predict treatment response[16]. GSTs and multiple hepatic cytochrome P450s play important roles in activation of CTX. GSTP1 is the most abundant GST found in many normal and malignant tissues[17]. Many chemotherapeutic agents, including CTX and anthracyclines are substrates for GSTP1. Polymorphic of single-nucleotide substitutions in the coding sequence of GSTP1 (1578 A>G) give rise to Ile105Val amino acid substitutions which lies within the substrate-binding site of GSTP1[17, 18]. The GSTP1 105Val variant is associated with a lower thermal stability and altered catalytic activity to a variety of substrates compared with GSTP1 105Ile[19]. Patients with homozygous isoleucine (Ile/Ile) have the highest level of GSTP1 activity. The activity is somewhat reduced in heterozygotes (Ile/Val) and further diminished for those with two copies of valine (Val/Val). Our results showed that patients 9 with GSTP1 105 Val/Val genotype were more likely to have poor response and severe toxicity. Besides the breast cancer[20], it is further supported by the trend of GSTP1 105 Ile genotypes with higher activity contribute to an well prognosis of multiple myeloma[21] and ovarian cancers[22] treated with at least one agent in our study regimens. In spite of the poor therapeutic response, diminished enzyme activity of GSTP1 also induces a severe toxicity. This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that patients with the GSTP1 105 Val variant enzyme have a reduced ability to detoxify chemotherapeutic agents, which result in the lower clearance and reduced efficacy[23]. It is reported interpatient variability in exposure to CTX correlated to treatment outcome. But result of a resent study did not support blood drug level of anticancer agents correlating with genotype and phenotype of drug metabolizing enzymes[24]. To our best knowledge, there is no report on the relationship between polymorphisms of drug metabolizing enzymes, pharmacokinetics of anticancer agents and observed variability in clinical response and toxicity of breast cancer treatment. Besides above mentioned finding, Angela reported that combined genotypes at CYP3A4, CYP3A5, GSTM1, and GSTT1 influenced the probability of treatment failure after high-dose adjuvant chemotherapy for node-positive breast cancer. Patients who carried low-drug genotype group had a 4.9-fold poorer disease-free survival (P = 0.021) and a four-fold poorer overall survival (P = 0.031) compared with individuals who carried high-drug genotype group[16]. In summary, our study provides information about the role of GSTP1 polymorphisms in outcome after neoadjuvant therapy of breast cancer. 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PCR primers and restriction enzymes for genotyping SNPs Gene name CYP3A4*1G CYP3A5*3 CYP3A7*2 GST P1 MDR1 Ex12 C1236T MDR1 Ex26 C3435T SNPs Primers rs2242480 C>T rs776746 A>G rs2740565 A>T rs1695 Ile105Val rs1128503 C>T rs34748655 C>T F: 5’-AGGGATTTGAGGGCTTCACT-3’ R: 5’-CAGAGCCAGCACGTTTTACA-3’ F: 5’- CATGACTTAGTAGACAGATGA-3’ R: 5’- GGTCCAAACAGGGAAGAAATA -3’ F: 5’-TCTATAAAGTCACAATCCCTGAGACCTGATTCATG -3’ R: 5’- GCCAAAGAGTGAGCTCAAAAA -3’ F: 5’- TGAATGACGGCGTGGAGGAC -3’ R: 5’- GGGGTGAGGGCACAAGAAGC -3’ 5’- TATCCTGTGTCTGTGAATTGCC -3’ 5’- CCTGACTCACCACACCAATG -3’ 5’- TGTTTTCAGCTGCTTGATGG -3’ 5’- AAGGCATGTATGTTGGCCTC -3’ Restriction enzyme Rsa I Ssp I BspH I Mae II Hae III Mo I 14 Table 3. The clinicopathological features among patients with different treatment response Well response n = 70 Poor response n = 50 N, (%) N, (%) P Age ( years) ≤ 45 46−55 > 55 Median Tumor stage at diagnosis II III Menopausal status at diagnosis Premenopausal Postmenopausal Estrogen receptor status** Positive Negative Progesterone receptor status** Positive Negative Her2 expression status** Overexpression Non overexpression Average dose intensity (Mean ± SD†) CTX (mg / m2) EPI (mg / m 2) Toxicity ‡ Grade III or IV Grade I or II 27 (38.6) 30 (42.8) 13(18.6) 49 19 (38.0 ) 21(42.0) 10 (20.0) 49 48 (68.6) 22 (31.4) 26(52.0) 24(48.0) 0.066* 47 (67.1) 23 (32.9) 32 (64.0) 18 (36.0) 0.720* 40 (58.8) 28 (41.2) 35 (70.0) 15 (30.0) 0.213 46 (67.6) 22 (32.4) 41 (82.0) 9 (18.0) 0.080 19 (27.9) 49 (72.1) 13 (26.0) 37 (73.0) 0.815 595 ± 33 77.2 ± 4.4 597 ± 34 77.9 ± 2.5 0.773# 0.285# 28 (43.1) 37 (56.9) 26 (52.0) 24 (48.0) 0.342* 0.981* * Two-sided chi-square test. # Two-sided t test. † Standard Deviation ‡ Records of toxicity were not available in five patients. ** Data of two patients in well response group was not available. 15 Table 4. The clinicopathological features among patients with different toxicity Severe toxicity n = 54 Average toxicity n = 61 N, (%) N, (%) P Age ≤ 45 46−55 > 55 Median Clinical tumor down-staging Yes No Axillary nodes metastasity Positive Negetive Average dose intensity (Mean ± SD†) CTX (mg / m2) EPI (mg / m2) 20 (37.0) 24 (44.5) 10 (18.5) 47 23 (37.7) 23 (37.7) 15 (24.6) 49 39 (72.2) 15 (27.8) 45 (73.8) 16 (26.2) 0.852* 38 (70.4) 16 (29.6) 42 (68.9) 19 (31.1) 0.860* 602 ± 33 77.7 ± 3.2 592 ± 31 76.3 ± 7.3 0.107# 0.177# 0.668* * Two-sided chi-square test. # Two-sided t test. † Standard Deviation 16 Table 5. Allelic and genotypic frequencies of CYPs, MDR1 and GST among patients with well or poor response, difference toxicity and the association with therapeutic effect of chemotherapy Genotype GSTP1 (rs1695) Val/Val Ile/Val Ile/Ile Ile/Val+ Ile/Ile Ile allele frequence CYP3A5*3 (rs776746) AA GA GG GA + GG A allele frequence CYP 3A4*1G (rs2242480) CC CT TT CT + TT T allele frequence Well response n (%) Poor response n (%) 38(55.9) 29(42.6) 1(1.5) 30(44.1) 0.228 38(76.0) 10(20.0) 2(4.0) 12(24.0) 0.140 Reference 0.34(0.13−0.87) 2.00(0.13-58.34) 0.40(0.16−0.96) 32(47.1) 31(45.5) 5(7.4) 36(52.9) 0.699 27(54.0) 20(40.0) 3(6.0) 23(46.0) 0.740 Reference 0.76(0.33-1.75) 0.71(0.12-3.89) 0.76(0.34-1.68) 38(54.3) 28(40.0) 4(5.7) 32(45.7) 0.257 29(58.0) 20(40.0) 1(2.0) 21(42.0) 0.220 Reference 0.94(0.41−2.12) 0.33(0.01−3.42) 0.86(0.39−1.91) * OR (95% CI) P# Severe toxicity Average toxicity (Grade III or IV) (Grade I or II) OR† (95% CI) n (%) n (%) P# 0.012 0.571 0.024 41(77.4) 12(22.6) 0 12(22.6) 0.113 32(52.5) 26(42.6) 3(4.9) 29(47.5) 0.262 Reference 0.36(0.14-0.89) 0.00(0.09-1.89) 0.35(0.13-0.78) 0.014 0.056 0.006 0.489 0.722 0.456 28(52.8) 25(47.2) 0(0.0) 25(47.2) 0.764 29(47.5) 25(41.0) 7(11.5) 32(52.5) 0.680 Reference 0.97(0.42-0.2.21) 0.928 1.24(0.55-2.76) 0.573 0.863 0.393 0.686 28(51.9) 25(46.3) 1(1.8) 26(48.1) 0.250 36(59.0) 21(34.4) 4(6.6) 25(41.0) 0.238 Reference 1.52(0.67-3.52) 0.32(0.01-3.37) 1.34(0.60-2.99) 0.273 0.300 0.440 17 CYP3A7*2 (rs2740565) AA AT TT AT+TT T allele frequence MDR1Ex12C1236T (rs1128503) TT CT CC CT+CC C allele frequence MDR1Ex26C3435T (rs34748655) CC CT TT CT+TT C allele frequence 33(47.8) 30(43.5) 6(8.7) 36(52.2) 0.304 28(54.9) 21(41.2) 2(3.9) 23(45.1) 0.245 Reference 0.82(0.36-1.87) 0.39(0.05-2.43) 0.75(0.34-1.66) 27(38.6) 35(50.0) 8(11.4) 43(61.4) 0.364 14(28.0) 29(58.0) 7(14.0) 36(72.0) 0.430 Reference 1.60(0.66-3.90) 1.69(0.43-6.61) 1.61(0.69-3.81) 23(33.3) 33(47.8) 13(18.9) 46(66.7) 0.428 22(44.0) 20(40.0) 8(16.0) 28(56.0) 0.360 Reference 0.63(0.26-1.53) 0.64(0.10-1.74) 0.64(0.28-1.44) 0.616 0.451 0.443 25(46.3) 28(51.9) 1(1.8) 29(53.7) 0.278 35(57.4) 19(31.1) 7(11.5) 26(42.6) 0.270 Reference 2.06(0.88-4.84) 0.20(0.01-1.82) 1.56(0.70-3.49) 0..066 0.111 0.235 0.256 0.391 0.229 21(38.9) 26(48.1) 7(13.0) 33(61.1) 0.370 18(29.5) 34(55.7) 9(14.8) 43(70.5) 0.426 Reference 0.66(0.27-1.59) 0.67(0.18-2.49) 0.66(0.28-1.53) 0.306 0.496 0.289 0.266 0.412 0.236 17(31.5) 25(46.3) 12(22.2) 37(68.5) 0.454 28(46.7) 23(38.3) 9(15.0) 32(53.3) 0.342 Reference 1.79(0.72-4.46) 2.20(0.68-7.21) 1.90(0.83-4.41) 0.166 0.140 0.098 * ORs of poor response. # Two-sided chi-square test. † ORs of severe toxicity. 18